{"id":12296,"date":"2013-05-10T06:32:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T11:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=12296"},"modified":"2013-05-10T06:32:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T11:32:05","slug":"today-canadian-violinist-nikki-chooi-makes-semi-finals-at-montreal-international-musical-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/05\/10\/today-canadian-violinist-nikki-chooi-makes-semi-finals-at-montreal-international-musical-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Today: Canadian violinist Nikki Chooi makes semi-finals at Montreal International Musical Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nikki Chooi with his 1729 Guarneri del Ges\u00f9 violin from the Canada Council Musical Instrument Bank.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vancouver-born violinist Nikki Chooi, a two-time winner of the Canada Council Musical Instrument Bank competition, is the lone Canadian at the start of semi-finals at the Montreal International Music Competition<\/a> today.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old Chooi has spent the last few years polishing his craft at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and now at the Juilliard School. He has already begun a concert career, interspersed with competition entries.<\/p>\n

He placed among the runner-up laureates of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium last year.<\/p>\n

The prestigious Belgian competition had 12 finalists. The Montreal competition has 12 semi-finalists, which include 16-year-old Stephen Waarts among its four Americans. Besides Canada, France, Poland, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Belgium and Ukraine are each represented by a single semi-finalist, as well.<\/p>\n

The two youngest competitors are both 16 — Waarts and Chinese entrant Zeyu Victor Li (who also has a background from both Curtis and Juilliard).<\/p>\n

The semi-final programmes get underway tonight at 7:30, at Salle Bourgie, Montreal’s new recital hall, carved out of an old church next door to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Chooi gets the night’s final slot, scheduled for 10:20 p.m.<\/p>\n

Chooi, who is in the second year of his second three-year win of the Canada Council’s 1729 Guarneri del Ges\u00f9 violin, has chosen to perform the G Major Sonata<\/em> by Maurice Ravel, Po\u00e8me<\/em> by Ernest Chausson and, for his contemporary work, a piece by American composer Joan Tower.<\/p>\n

The semi-final recitals continue Saturday from 1 to 4:30 p.m. and again from 7:30 to 11 p.m., with an announcement by the jury due at some time after the music has stopped.<\/p>\n

CBC Music is promising to make a stream of each competitor’s performance available shortly after they have finished playing. You can check in here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CBC Radio will present recital-round highlights on May 14 and 15 on Tempo<\/em>, which airs between 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Another set of highlights is set to be broadcast on In Concert<\/em>, on May 19 starting at 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n

John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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